[R-SIG-Mac] distributing a customized R to students?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:22 AM, John Fox wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Could anyone suggest how to prepare a customized R CD to distribute to
> students? 
> 
> What I do for students using Windows (still the large majority of those in
> my class) is to prepare an R-for-Windows installer that installs a
> customized R along with the Rcmdr package and all its dependencies. I'd like
> to prepare something similar, if possible, for students using Mac OS X.
> Along with R, the Rcmdr package has many dependencies and requires that X11
> and Tcl/Tk for X Windows are installed.
> 

It's easily possible - you can use Apple's PackageMaker (that is what we use for official R distributions).

Cheers,
Simon


> If it's not possible to create an installer that will install everything
> necessary in one step, is there another approach to distributing the
> required components on a CD? The object is to make the installation as
> simple as possible, since many of my students find software installation
> challenging.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Senator William McMaster 
>  Professor of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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